"It is expedient for the victor to wish……" — Seneca the Younger

More Expedient Quotes

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• All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy… — Maya Angelou
• In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient… — Unknown Author
• A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. — Horace
• Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
• We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the… — Andre Gide
• I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different… — Sonia Sotomayor
• Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. — Alan Paton
• In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to… — Konrad Lorenz
• In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way. — Abraham Lincoln
• A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead,… — Ambrose Bierce
• My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it… — Dexter Scott King

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